Famous cathedrals as seen and described by great writers (1909)
Singleton, Esther, d. 1930 · New York : Dodd, Mead & company · leaf 80
pport the pal-aces of Semiramis, support nothing at all; they are placedthere for show ; they are the feet of two banqueting-tablesset for a congress of giants, on which are drawn up in arow ninety-six statues of between three and four metres,which from a distance cannot be distinguished and… … ST. PETERS, ROME 5 I with the piazza by two curves of such amplitude, is an im-posing conception. The basilica of St. Peter, for the glo-rification of which this immense device has been contrived,declares itself in the skies by a great hemispheric dome,flanked by two smaller domes; these cupolas,…
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